Author Description

"This volume takes its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene. It offers contextualized readings of the understandings of nature and the natural with which Beckett entered into dialogue throughout his decade-spanning œuvre. It shows that part of the radicality of Beckett's writing is that it questions what appears in our cultures as the most unquestionable and opens up possibilities for thinking not only what is human, literature, and philosophy, but also gender, identity, and any attempt at definitions of ourselves or the world at large"--